Swan Lake Quotes

• I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.

  William Kempe

  Hard Work, Unique, Lakes

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• I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

  Graeme Murphy

  Honesty, Thinking, Lakes

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• Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Lakes, Swans, Dancer

  "Black Swan Choreographer Benjamin Millepied on Teaching Natalie Portman to Have Swan Arms" by Rebecca Milzoff, www.vulture.com. December 3, 2010.

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• You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

  Natalia Makarova

  Lakes, Swans, Nutcrackers

  "Natalia Makarova, Kennedy Center honoree". Interview with Allan Ulrich, www.sfgate.com. December 5, 2012.

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• Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

  Natalia Makarova

  Lakes, Swans, Black

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• There's a double beauty whenever a swan
  Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

  Thomas Hood

  Lakes, Swans, Swim

  Thomas Hood (1861). “Poems ... Thirteenth edition”, p.159

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• I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Beauty, Swans, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had seen the ballet of Swan Lake as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Children, Lakes, Swans

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• Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.

  Fred Reed

  Book, Writing, Lakes

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• I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company I had ever seen even on video that had Asian dancers. The Asian community in Hawaii is actually almost as dominant as the Caucasian community. I thought "I can relate to that company because they look like people that I see every day." They weren't all little stick-thin Russian ballerinas.

  Joan Chen

  Lakes, Swans, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and - ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way. I didn't come to it on my own.

  Ellen Barkin

  Lakes, Swans, Hands

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• The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Lakes, Swans, Tchaikovsky

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Absurdistan”, p.181, Granta Books

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